Are folks still getting lost in the faux marble expanse of your airport or shopping mall, even after youve uploaded the floor plan to Google Maps.
Then maybe its time you went the extra mile and improved indoor mapping using the official Floor Plan Marker app.
It instructs you to walk around the entire surface of your place of interest, while gathering position data from GPS, public WiFi signals and cell towers.
Once added to Googles database, this extra info will allow the familiar blue dot to function on your customers Android phones even when your actually concrete building gets in the way of their satellite signal.
Google offers Floor Plan Marker app to businesses so they can improve indoor mapping originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:49:00 EDT.
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